We begin this year with a sense of profound thanks for all of you who have brought the Gurian Institute into your schools, homes, and communities for twenty years.  We have trained tens of thousands of professionals and reached more than one million parents and community members.  Our energy and passion for this work is fed by your energy and passion.  You drive us, and I want to begin 2018 …

he mental health of our children is becoming increasingly fragile. Wherever we look, we see immense loneliness and confusion in teen communities. In the Phoenix area in the last month, for instance, there have been 9 suicides of children from ages 13 to 18. Nationwide, there are approximately 22 suicides per day, many of them teens. Many other teens do not turn death on themselves but on others as rates …

Dear Friends and Colleagues, We are fully entering the digital age(!) and proud to offer a Membership subscription service to educators, parents, mentors, and others who work with boys and girls.  All of us at GI believe we are at a time when brain science can help us revolutionize how we teach, raise, and mentor our children.  I love speaking in your communities, schools, and conferences, and I love our email …

Ever misplace your phone, forget someone’s name, or struggle to find the right words? Of course, you have.  It happens to all of us. But if you find it happening more and more it may predict trouble, especially if your memory is worse than it was 10 years ago. People who complain about memory loss have an 80% chance it will get worse unless they do something about it! That’s …

Is Children’s Mental Health a School Issue or a Parent Issue?  We’ve been alerting our readers to issues in suicide prevention this last few weeks, and I want to follow up with a plea for community partnership on the issue of children’s mental health. The newest national estimate for mental health medication-use among children sits between 1 in 4 and 1 in 5.  It is likely, though, that more children …